Released for Verizon Wireless, the LG Chocolate (VX8500) offers a minimalist-inspired style, silky-smooth slide design, and a glowing, touch-sensitive keypad. In addition to its multimedia capabilities and styling, Verizon Wireless has included the features such as VCAST Video and 3D Games, a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth capabilities, a microSD memory expansion slot that supports the newest SanDisk 2 GB cards and access to VZ Navigator and turn-by-turn navigation with audible voice directions to most addresses in the U.S... [Continue reading LG Chocolate (VX8500) Review]
LG Chocolate (VX8500) Features
Innovative sliding design with red touch navigation keys and dedicated music key for easy access to playlists
Built-in 1.3-megapixel camera, multi-step zoom, and video clip capture and playback capabilities
Bluetooth compatible with devices that support the headset and handsfree profiles including A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution) profile for wireless music listening
Speaker-independent voice recognition to call, send message, check status, lookup names, and access My Account
Flash user interface themes for personalization
Personal Tools including Calendar with Scheduler, Alarm Clock, Notepad, plus World Clock, Calculator and Ez Tip Calculator tools
MicroSD external memory port to store pictures, videos, sounds and music
WAP 2.0 compliant browser with EV-DO for high-speed data transmission including VCAST video and music on-demand
LG Chocolate (VX8500) User Reviews
1. Posted by babblebabe
Sun Dec 31, 2006 4:14 pm
I've had my green Chocolate for nearly a month now, and feel like I could write a book about it! Overall I am enjoying the phone but have run into many technical problems which required my best problem-solving skills, and some are still not solved.
Pros and cons:
Mp3 player:
Pro: If you're trying to avoid carrying around too many electronic goodies, this phone can do it. I didn't want to have to carry an iPod and a phone, so the Chocolate was my compromise. I use the mp3 player a lot, as I walk for exercise and load audio books onto the phone to listen to while I walk.
Con: Playlist length (50 entries) is short, would be better if it was 100+ per playlist. Creating playlists is a pain unless you are using something like BitPim to create them on your computer.
Con: If you're a Mac user, you will end up with two lists of your mp3's, one of which is non-playable and will freeze the phone (these files are listed first and usually start with "._"), which can only be unfrozen by taking the out the battery and restarting. The second list is the playable list. I have tried every which way to delete the duplicate files (see my many postings on this forum) and just can't seem to get there. This means you must create playlists, especially if you wish to use the Shuffle feature as otherwise it will shuffle to the duplicate files and freeze the phone.
MEMORY:
Pro: Lots of memory, more than any other phone I have seen so far. There is 68MB of memory built into the phone; if you don't have a lot of extra stuff added in that gives you enough memory to take a one-hour video (which you then transfer to the sd card). While the 8600 is being touted as a flip version of the Chocolate, it only has 20MB of memory!
Pro: There is an additional 6MB of memory set aside for music to be loaded directly onto the phone. Add that to whatever you have loaded onto the memory card and that's a good sized bundle of mp3 memory available.
Con: What's not to like here?
FILE TRANSFER:
Pro: It's easy to move files onto the insertable memory card if you use a card reader. This applies to music, pix and flix.
Con: Again, if you have Mac, you get those double mp3 files; pix and flix seem to be unaffected. I've also read many postings from Windows users who have had difficulty getting the Music Essentials kit to work.
Con: If you're not downloading them directly from Get It Now, ringtones and wallpapers (unless you create your own and put them into the pix folder) require a third party program, like BitPim. Playlists can also be created with BitPim and loaded back onto the card.
VIDEOS:
Pro: Good quality videos, though it would have been nice to have a flash to take these in nighttime settings. VZW is not adequately advertising the fact that you can take up to one hour of video with this phone - a real treat. I have transferred my videos to my computer (on a Mac they are Quicktime files) and they are excellent quality. I have even paused playback and grabbed good-quality still photos from them.
Con: Length of videos depends on the amount of phone memory available, so if you have a lot of games, ringtones, etc. on your phone it will reduce the amount of video time, and you can't record directly onto the flash card, which would open up a lot of extra memory.
NAVIGATION:
I like the navigation circle, but it would be handier if you could just press a number on your keyboard to get to different functions on the phone. Maybe this could be solved with a software upgrade?
TOUCH PAD:
No problems so far with this, it just takes some getting used to. I have noticed that if my hands are very dry or very cold I have to work harder to get it to recognize the pressure, especially on the exterior circle - the soft keys don't seem to be as much of a problem.
BATTERY LIFE:
I use both the phone features and the mp3 player a lot so I bought the extended battery after reading other postings about short battery life. I also turned off EVDO since I find VCAST useless. Even with the extended battery it's not the greatest, but I usually plug it into the charger every time I get into the car anyway, so it hasn't been a major problem for me. I can walk for an hour, listen to mp3's, make phone calls and still have 3 bars showing at the end of the day.
I think we're expecting this phone to do a lot and still have the same battery life as phone-only or phone-picture-only phones. Until battery technology catches up with the features being offered on this phone we'll be struggling with this.
The only time I've run out of charge completely is while playing Sims 2, to which I admit total addiction!
SCREEN RESOLUTION:
Excellent! I am a bead artist, so I scanned some of my beadwork into my computer and made it into wallpaper - you can see every tiny bead clearly!
My son had an 8600 for about two days and when you compare the screen quality, the 8500 wins hands down (he now owns a Chocolate).
CONCLUSION:
Though not perfect, this phone has been a good upgrade for me. I will be happier if/when VZW and LG get their collective acts together and recognize that they need to be supporting Macs better. (I never had mp3 problems with my Samsung.)
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2. Posted by cjdzombie
Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:54 pm
I got my chocolate about a week ago. I upgraded from a LG VX4400 and the differences are awsome. Since I have had the phone I keep finding more and more that I love about the chocolate, but there are some little things that I dislike.
Like:
-Good call reception
-Great look/desgn
-Loud external speaker
-Up to 2 gigs of micro sd memory expansion
-Easy to use interface. (reading manual helps alot)
-Decent 1.3 mega pixel camera
-Good battery life.
-Phone can be talked on with slide open and shut.
-Strong sturdy feel to the phone.
-VZW Deluxe ringtones and ringback tones can be downloaded from Get It Now.
Dislike:
-Power port a little tricky to plug into.
-Headphone adapter plugs in to power port on side of phone, and the design of the adapter is a little flimsy. Wouldnt work well for jogging.
-Touch screen is a little hard to get used to, but is cool once mastered.
-Doesnt come with any holster.
-Finer prints show heavily on phones black surface.
-No speaker phone.
-Cant figure out how to create ringtones.
In all I really enjoy this phone. The good really out weighs the bad with this phone. If I can just figure out how to create my own ring tones it will be perfect. I have recieved alot of compliments on the phone. I would suggest this phone to anyone looking for a sharp looking phone that doubles as a MP3 player.
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3. Posted by bobburt444
Sat Dec 02, 2006 1:55 am
I've had my chocolate for almost 2 weeks now, and I absolutely love everything about it! It feels sturdy and solid. The whole sliding thing is sort of new to me, but I love it. I usually find myself opening it upside-down a lot because I personally think it's really comfortable to open it like that. The touch keys are way easy to get used to if you have/used to have an iPod. And the whole thing about "the oils from your fingers mess up the touchpad and the screen freezes". Yeah right. I've had ZERO problems with it this far. And it's a newer Chocolate, which means it comes with speakerphone. I haven't gotten to try it out yet. The charger cable feels very sturdy/non-flimsy when it's connected. Great camera picture quality. I've taken about 30 pictures with it so far, off and on usage, whenever I feel like it. Oh and also, since it's a newer Chocolate, you don't have to press a side button twice to unlock it when it's closed, you have the option of changing it to where you can press a button once or twice. I have mine set to where I just have to press a side button once. So far, the battery life has been great! I've had to charge it once since I got. I've also increased the battery life by turning off EV-DO in the "secret menu", which is really only for VCast, which I didn't subscribe to (I prefer iTunes). Texting is really really easy, for me at least. I have no problems with the keypad. So now I'm gonna go over Pros and Cons:
PROS!!!:
-easy texting
-great camera
-long battery life (I kept it on w/o EV-DO for 4 days straight and lost 1 bar on the battery indicator, w/ regular text and call usage)
-NO LEARNING CURVE WHATSOEVER!! just barely touch it (when it's on the highest setting, which what mine is on)
-sturdy feel
-slider feels sturdy too, feels like it will never break
-when charger is plugged in, the connection feels sturdy
-great sound quality
-great speaker quality when you play music (I bought a 1gb micro sd card and I have about 100 songs on it)
-I like the themes, 'specially Rock and Roll (pretty much default I guess)
CONS!!!:
-the contact picture ID thing is awkward a little bit, you can't see the picture assigned to that person unless you do 2 things:
1. go into MY PIX and look at the picture
2. when the person calls you, the assigned picture shows you who's calling
I would like the contacts menu to show the pictures assigned to people next to their name in the menu...but this is probably the standard Verizon UI I would guess...?
-the fingerprint problem, I really just get fingerprints on where the battery is, not much on the front
-and last con, video quality isn't all that great, SO FAR...
Not much CONS, lots of PROS. Hope this review helps anyone, I highly recommend this phone, I LOVE IT!!!
Also, one of my friends has a Chocolate also, and he likes to BMX. He had his Chocolate in his pocket, he fell and sadly, landed on his Chocolate on concrete, and think about it, he probably weighs about 170 pounds. He pulled it out of his pocket, and zero cracks, no scratches, and overall his phone was still in perfect condition. I guess this goes to show you, and me, how durable and sturdy the Chocolate is.
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4. Posted by titans4ever
Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:00 am
I like mine alot, mostly because of the all-in one features and free things you can do with it. I like the slider part since it protects the camera and there is no antenna sticking out of it when i put in my pocket. Navigation is mastered in a day or two if you have had any LG phone before.
If you are heavy into playing music then don't bother since you will more than likely drain the battery playing music and then not have a phone later in the day.
You can bypass all the verizon nickel and dime stuff like ringtones and wallpaper costing $1-$3 per item. I bought the music essentials kit mostly for the headphones that fit the phone. I quickly found out that you can use the usb cable to upload ringtones and wallpapers to your phone for free.
Overall I would give it a 9 of 10. The chocolate may not have the best of any one thing mp3 player, camera or options (no speakerphone?) but it does them all better in combo than any other phone I have looked at. It works for everything that I need and I love the look.
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5. Posted by *KaylaJo_16*
Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:05 pm
I've had my chocolate for 2 weeks now and I absolutely love more about it than the old one.
but I have had some problems with it.
Good things
1.easy to text
2.awesome look to it
3. great sound when talking
4. long lasting battery
5.vibrate action is great
6. the camera takes great pictures
Bad things
1.Camcorder looks good while recording but when you watch it it looks bad
2. speakerphone sucks I can't even hear on it
3.I have a huge scratch on it all the way up the screen and i never dropped it once!
4.the music essentials kit is hard to download!
5.when i'm taking pictures if you hit one wrong button it'll exit out of the picture area
But overall it's a good phone I love it! before I got that phone I had the samsung phone that flips both ways. I didnt like it to much so verizon told me to pick a new one out and i'm glad I chose the chocolate!
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6. Posted by Stryder13
Thu Dec 28, 2006 5:33 pm
I have the same pros and cons of most everyone that has posted before me except for 1. There IS a speakerphone on the Chocolate. When you dial a number or send a phone call a small speaker icon appears on the screen up where the camera button is on the side. The speakerphone option is the camera button, while you are in a call. You people should really read the manual before you post misleading information.
I have recently started having problems with the battery life. Other than that I love the phone. I will re-post when I figure out the deal with the battery life.
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7. Posted by Kellymae4
Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:01 am
HI everyone, I received my chocolate via Fed Ex yesterday! I like it! It has a very cool design. It fits perfect in the palm of my hand. The camera takes great pictures! I also like the video camera. The touch sensitive Navication keys are hard to get use to. I open my calendar and contacts just about everytime I slide open the phone. There are a few things that I hope get better as more people get their phones. I have tried to download ringtones and there aren't very many applications on the phone. I would definetly suggest buying the music essentials kit ($30) so you can make your own ringtones. I am sure more applications will be available soon. The charger is different so that means I have to buy a new car charger. I recieved an adapter to hook normal earphones to the phone. I think they prolly could have just gave us a normal hole or they could have sent earphones with it. Anyway, I love it! I will be buying the music essentials kit! I hope this helps any of you! -Kelly
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8. Posted by aznlegolas
Tue Mar 06, 2007 2:13 am
in addition to all the posts about battery life, i would just like to say that the new style of battery that the chocolate uses ( the lithium - ion battery)
is a lot better than the older style of battery, the ni-cad. ONE MAJOR DRAWBACK! do not charge your chocolate overnight! this slowly shortens the battery life on all phones but is very accelerated on the chocolate! it sucks for me, because the regular battery had a standy battery life of a little over 2 hours, and i have to get a second extended battery because standy on the extended is max 7.5-8 hours. so if you planning to use the mp3 player. i would suggest buying 4 or 5 extended batteries. thats what you will need to make it last through the day
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9. Posted by mmermle
Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:54 am
I totally love the design of the chocolate. The menus make pretty much sense, so it's fairly simple to navigate. The keypad definately takes getting used to, though.
Things to consider:
--the phone is delicate. Compared to my old Nokia (which was no frills, straight forward, press the keys really hard to make them work) this phone is like a piece of china. I'm afraid to set it down anywhere for fear that dirt will get into it and ruin it.
--the battery life is not even funny. My phone shut off today about 18 hours from when it was fully charged. Mind you, I played a bunch of music on it and I didn't turn off the EVO (or whatever it's called). But so far, I'm not impressed. My old phone would last for a week.
--the incompatability with a 2.5mm headphone jack is really annoying. The adapter that comes with the phone doesn't connect fully with the Jabra earpiece I bought.
--the access to the jack for charging the phone is inconvenient to hookup. Not something you could easily do in the dark as you remember to plug in your phone before you drift off.
I agree with previous postings that the phone provides a good combo of a lot of cool features--GPS navigation, music, good resolution camera, sleek look, and my favourite: the option of a music alarm--but doesn't provide the best of any of those services. It's no match for an ipod, and I have to say I'm tempted to go back to my no frills phone because I know it will last and this phone won't.
Oh one more thing--today in the middle of playing a song the phone froze. That was frustrating. As someone else here explained, the only way to unfreeze was to take out the battery.
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10. Posted by jgowrie
Wed Nov 22, 2006 6:46 pm
A quick review now that I've had the phone for just over 3 months.
The phone itself is great. Sound quality very good, screen is excellent. The camera is also very good, even in dim lighting. The touch pad works well once you get used to it. The buttons on the side can be a little tricky at times and I'll find myself cursing at the phone , but it's usually because I'm trying to do to many things at once. It also seems to be very durable. I work on construction sites which are not ideal locations for any cell phone, let alone one as fancy as the chocolate. I've dropped it about 3 times so far and it's constantly exposed to dust and it is still working fine . The face is slightly scratched but that is about it.
Bad things about the phone,
I have a sandisk 512 card which I was using for mp3's and I have since had to stop using it. I'm not sure if it's my phone, the card or a problem with all chocolates, but when the card is inserted it drains the battery in less than 12 hours whether I am accessing it or not. Take the card out and the battery will go for a couple of days. That is a major issue.
Also, if you want an ipod - BUY AN IPOD. This phone is certainly not remotely close to being able to take the place of the real deal. I still don't have an ipod because I originally thought this phone would get me by. The software is glitchy, the interface is clumsy and you can't use it with anything but headphones. If I had it to do all over I would pass on this phone and have used the extra money for a good flip phone with decent camera and gotten the ipod for my music.
Another problem is that as far as I can tell there is no way to get all your pictures to transfer in bulk onto the memory card. I take a lot of pictures with the phone and to have to transfer them one by one infuriates me.
On the whole I'd give the phone a 7/10 and say to pass on it unless you don't mind living with it's shortcomings
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11. Posted by MJB12
Sun Feb 24, 2008 5:25 pm
I got the LG Chocolate as my upgrade from Verizon in March 2007. I enjoyed it at first, the Verizon software was a little bit more enjoyable than the last Verizon phone I had (the Razr), pictures were much better quality, etc. Never had a problem with battery life! Best battery I've had with a Verizon phone. I always charge my phones regularly each night, and rarely would I drop below 4 bars in a day. Only at concerts or events where I take a lot of pictures or talk on the phone for a while does it lose one bar.
I had minor problems at first, but I could deal with those. Easily scratched front surface of the phone, calling people by accident, a lot of etc. touch pad issues.
However, by the end of the year (Christmas eve), the screen started going blank white, and would also reset itself randomly. So I brought it in and they traded it out for a new one under warranty. (This exact problem happened to my friend's Cherry Chocolate, screen went bright white and reset itself). That was 12/24/07 that they replaced it. This past week, when removing it from the charger, a metal piece from the charging port was yanked out with the charging cord. So I went in to replace it again. That particular Verizon store didn't have any extras on hand, so I had to go to a store 25 minutes away to get one because my battery was already on its 3rd day of not getting charged and I wasn't going to wait 2 days to get shipped one.
So I'm now on my third Chocolate in under one year, the second one lasting less than 2 months. This one I'm worried about as well.the top half seems a bit wobbly when it's slid up, and feels like it could become disconnected over time (leading to a repeat of the 1st problem), and the charger port seems resistant and when I try to remove it from the charger, some amount of force is required to pull the cord out, so I feel like there will be a repeat of the 2nd problem.
I am very unhappy with the quality of this phone now. I predict I will be back at the Verizon store very soon having to get it replaced again, and my upgrade is not until November. I hear the newer Chocolates with the spin wheel have been greatly improved with less problems. But I will probably go back to Motorola which I never had problems with before.
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12. Posted by swtnsillystud
Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:37 pm
Where to start. I got this phone (the white one) a week and a day ago. I already had to get a new one sent to me. The screen started to go out tuesday! Goes to a white screen then jest stops working. Now it wont charge or turn on! This phone i have to say is the most poorly made phone yet by LG!! It looks great yes, but the long term view on this phone looks sad! I would love to know if anyone has had there chocolate over 2 months with out something going wrong with it?! I had an old LG The V. and i treated that phone like crap! Threw it around, dropped it in water, got dirt all inside it and it still works like the day i got it! How come they cant keep the looks of this phone yet the great worksman ship of there old phones?!
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13. Posted by Chikabangbop
Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:17 pm
For my birthday I recieved a White Chocolate. I was so excited! I plugged it in and started putting music and games on my phone. Well, at first my chocolate was pretty cool. All my friends were complementing me on it and it just looked cool. But then I learned how horrible the chocolate really is.
The first thing I found out was about the battery life. This phone can not go one day without being charged, I'm serious. It will die if you don't charge each and every single day over night.
The battery was bothersome but for the first couple months everything was ok. Then the chocolate decided that it wasn't going to listen to me anymore, and the madness began.
I called my mom to ask her to come pick me up. She said yes and we hung up. I closed my chocolate and while it was closed it opened up the "recent calls" file and clicked on my mom and called her back. My mom kept trying to talk to me but I couldn't talk back. I ended up just hanging up. For a while this happened just when I closed the phone, but then it started to just call people randomly while it was in my pocket. When it didn't call people by itself it had bad battery, but now it would die about half way through the day.
Then my chocolate started playing music during class. I would be sitting there in latin and all the sudden "Love like winter" or "Maybe Misery" would start to play. A lot of people though someone was calling me, but my phone was just doing things by itself. This got my phone confinscated several times and got me many a detention.
After that my phone started doing other things by itself. Taking pictures of books in my backpack when it was in there, texting people things like "biiqdghjfifrhrgrghiu" or even testing out ringtones during math class.
In conclusion, if you would like a phone that doesnt have a mind of it's own this is not the phone for you. In fact, I don't know why anybody would want this phone because it will just turn on you and betray you. I am not the only one that has experienced this, my older sister had a black chocolate and the same thing happened to her. My parents replaced it with a voyager, although I am still stuck with my white chocolate. I don't even bring this piece of junk to school anymore because its unpredictable. I can't wait until Febuary when I get a Samsung sch-u340.
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14. Posted by tachi
Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:53 pm
i got my lg vx8500 about 6 months ago and i liked it then. it was a great phone in the beginning, but now it seems to be alot of trouble for me.
for the past couple of months, it's been acting up. when i open my phone via slider, it will automatically activate the mobile web, which i don't want to use. sometimes it will also continue going through my contact list and won't stop. when i press on the send button, it will sometime dial the last number without me touching the button again. it will also not work every so often. i just rec'd a replacement one about two weeks ago and now that one is acting up also.
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15. Posted by d_curb
Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:40 am
I recieved my 1st chocolate phone August of 2006. Right away the battery life with music playing made me sick. Why design a phone to playback music if the battery is not strong enough to support the function for more than an hour? Secondly, the voice functions button is in an inconvenient spot. More than once I have heard my phone in my pocket asking me to please say a command. I've changed the functions to unlock it from pressing once to twice but it still does it. Well, just shy of a year that phone died. The camera function stopped working and it would randomly shut itself off (not good for a work phone!).
I got a free manufacturer replacement of that phone a week before my yr warranty ran out. That replacement only went for 2.5 months before it quit working. This time the whole front touch pad stopped working. I could see that I was getting a call and I could answer it by opening the phone, but I couldn't hear anything. I couldnt view my contact list or text messages because of that lack of function.
I'm now on the first month of the 2nd replacement and already it is randomly shutting off. I'm just waiting for it to quit working.
As you can see, I've had nothing but bad problems with this phone. My first impression was great, however. I loved the styling. The size is amazing and perfect for a jacket pocket or purse. Thats about all the "good" review I can muster for this phone.
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16. Posted by alabamabrands7
Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:09 pm
LG Cherry Chocolate phone- only to be dissapointed again, and again, and again, and again (and he's not the only one).
It wasn't too much more than a month into the new phone that the sound went out.
He got a replacement.
A few weeks later the new phone had the screen go black and die.
After this he decided to switch models- if he and his friend are having these same problems, this is a serious product failure.
A little bit later the third phone bites the dust. I don't know about you, but my husband just doesn't need to be spending this much time in a Verizon store!
According to Verizon policy, you have to go through four of the same phones to be able to change styles. (This fact doesn't worry me too much; according to trend- we'll get there.)
Sure enough, today the phone blacked-out and turned itself off. It is dead. We've been anxoiusly waiting for him to come home (he had to work a little late), but instead he can go search down the Verizon store nearest to him and spend some time with his "new family" over there.
ARRGGHH!
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17. Posted by lea280
Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:24 pm
i got the chocolate as soon as it came out and for a few months thought it was the best phone ever. now, about 5 months later, it's started to give me problems. i went to the verizon store and the tech guy told me the problems i've been experiencing (ie, unstoppable scrolling through message inbox or contacts, sending of text messages before they're completed, automatic calling of the last person on recent calls list, and random turning off or restarting) are "normal for the chocolate". they said they'll replace it for free, but chances are the problems are just going to keep coming back. it's going to happen to you if you get one, so just don't waste your time. it's the most frustrating thing to have to deal with, and with 1 and a half years left to go with it, i'm not a happy customer.
ps, to the person who accused previous reviewers of "posting false information before reading the users manuel", the original chocolates DON'T have speakerphone unless the software is updated. maybe you should get your facts straight before being so quick as to call others ignorant.
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18. Posted by gugmi01
Mon Jul 23, 2007 5:38 pm
Hey all.
The Lg chocoalte VX8500 is a marvelous phone. I got it a couple weeks ago and really enjoyed it. A few days later the VX8550 (Chocolate 2) came out and looked alot better so i exchanged it. From my opinion the Chocolate 2 beats the VX8500 by a long shot.
But overall when i did have the 8500 I was trully impressed with the camera quality and the music quality. I definately recommend this phone or even more the vx8550.
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19. Posted by Scratch2012
Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:39 pm
I was fairly happy with the LG chocolate when I first got it until a couple of weeks later I accidentaly dropped it on a tile floor. What happened was that the screen cracked on the phone and had severe dents and I had to replace it. Also I had problems with the power of the battery and the number pad. This phone looks good but everything else is just like a regular LG phone and from my incident I learned this phone is very fragile.
I give the LG Chocolate a 6/10
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20. Posted by DPCMarion
Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:26 pm
I had the Chocolate for 3 days now. Battery is dead within 12 hours after a full charge. (even had Verizon replace the battery - still dead after 12 hours).
Today I just left it sitting on my desk (after a full charge of the battery) and it was dead within 12 hours. No calls, no music playing, no picture taking, no screen. I just let it sit there, in standby.
A previous review said they have the same problem with the 512 meg SanDisk chip installed. I have the same chip installed in my phone.
Another note... The touch pad is way too sensative (even with it turned all the way down). Way to easy to tap a wrong button by mistake.
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21. Posted by Double-E
Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:34 pm
I wish it were true that Verizon would replace the Chocolate. I am on my 5th one. The Chocolate is too sensitive and will sometimes call someone while it's just in my pocket. Maybe that's a Verizon scam to get you to use up more minutes, I don't know. And often I receive a call from someone in my phonebook, and it asks if I want to add them to my phonebook! It then beeps incessantly until I click "No". It even does this when I call my voicemail. I have gone around and around with Verizon, where I have been a customer for many years, but they just say well we will send you another Chocolate. No Customer Service means no repeat business. I have two Verizon accounts and three Verizon phones, but when the contract runs out this time I will dump Verizon for their indifference to customers. I'd like to get in on a class action suit.
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22. Posted by brina_boo91
Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:53 pm
Does anybody kno how i can use the san disc to upload my music on to my fone. i tried putting the music on the disc using windows media and then put the disc in my fone bt i didnt kno wat to do from there. Any suggestions wud be great!
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23. Posted by Bryces_Girl
Tue Jun 16, 2009 12:55 pm
Hey! I loved this phone so much when I first got it, but now I'm starting to really dislike this phone. My first one, which I had for about a year and then it stopped charging on the regular charger and the touch pad would blink and go to texting and contacts on it's own, so I had to get a replacement phone. I've had this one for about five months and now it's starting to call my last call in my phone while the keys are locked and it will go to my call commands. Also my music will play and then it will keep playing,but you can't hear it, so it goes in and out. So I'm going to have to go get myself a new phone that is not a chocolate. I would not recommend it, but that is just my opinion.I give it a 4 out of 10.
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